NEWS IN BRIEF.
A giios) aged 00 and 3(> octogenarians were included in a party of 102 old folk ai Wycombe, England. Four old age pensioners, whose ages total 311 years, were lately doing threshing work near Woburn. lints on hire for the use of lady visitors are proving a profitable sideline with one New York milliner. Twice as many young women as young men were sent overseas under Salvation Army auspices last year. Fifty thousand acres put under I lie plough in Leicestershire during liie war have gone back to grass. About £325 was realised from waste paper during the last quarter of I!)24 by the London County Council.
South London Palace —one of the oldest music-halls in London — i s to he reconstructed at a cost o£ £50,000. A swan crossing Exe Bridge, Exeter, on its flight up the river, struck a live tramway wire and was electrocuted. In 15 years at (lie Royal Free Hospital, Dr. Ann Gilett claims to have administered anaesthetics nearly 30,000 times. Simple repairs to clothing and footwear are suggested as a suitaide addition lo the training of boys in Poor Law schools. “Air raid babies jump at the least sound,'’ said the wife of a landlord in a Court possession ease at Bloomsbury. A nephew of: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Major C. G. Moulton Barrett, 04, died at Culbournc, Isle of Wight, in January. The air is so clear in Zululaiul that objects of a fair size can be distinguished at a distance of seven or eight miles by starlight. To allow hounds and horses of tlit- Whaddnn Chase lo cross the railway at Swanbonrne, Buks, a train was held up recently.
To settle 50 Hebridean fisherman farmers on the coast of Vancouver Island, the British Columbian Government Ims voted £4OOO. A 75-year-old Bedford woman, who lias just died, spent nearly 50 years in a mental hospital, costing (he ratepayers a total of £1550. The eyes of snails and slugs are perched rigid at the end of their feelers, so that they can look in every direction without moving. Spiders were found by the Mount Everest expedition last year 4000 ft, higher than any vegetable growth. They feed upon one another. Unemployment figures in Black Country labour exchanges are dropping by t lion sands weekly, owing lo a marked improvement in many trades. Tenants assisted by the London County Council in purchasing their own houses during 102! numbered 201, (lie amount advanced being £1(12,580. Toward the £05,000 required for the division of the Peterborough Diocese and the creation of the new Sen of Leicester, £13,000 lias been given. An English farjnslead, with prize cattle and poultry, model dairy, and fruit orchard will lie a feature of a London food exhibition ibis year. Among (lie would-be recruits to the British Army 82 out of 100 are being rejected as physically unfit. In 1022-23 the proportion was 58 pci cent. Convicts at Peterhead Prison, Aberdeenshire, are in future to be employed in granite quarries, and not on the breakwater of the Admiralty harbour. Lemons are arriving in Britain from Sicily at the rate of 30,000,000 per month, owing lo the fact that America, has banned the importation of Italian frail. Several handcarts, a set of false teeth, a. stethoscope, two sacks of ciuks, and 100 footballs were aiiiong lost articles which realised £4OO at a sale in Manchester.
Although Miss Cope has played the organ in a Ktafcsway church, London, for (i years, site lias only missed a Sunday service four limes, apart from holidays. Covered-in buses will probably be seen in London streets towards the end of this year. They will have windows lo raise or lower, and upholstered seats on the upper deck. Two Preston sisters, Misses Jane and Elizabeth Myerscoitgli, aged respectively 73 and 79, and who died within two days oi each other, in January were buried in the, same grave. Voters in South Africa will not have to go to the poll if' a hill introduced in Lhe South African Parlament: becomes law. By it they arc allowed to register, their votes by post. When Mrs. Kate Killeha, of Dowiais, Glamorganshire, was fined for assault of Merthyr, she struck the complainant on the eye in Court. She was later sentenced to two months’ imprisonment. Medical instructions for treatment of the patient were lately wirelessed from the Canadian liner Minncdosa, in mid-Atlantic, in aid of a sailor who had fallen down the hold of a Norwegian steamer. Men who wear spectacles are not regarded as suitable, for driving buses in crowded London streets, as the sun shining on (he lens might cause momentary blindness, with disastrous effects.
Out of 8801 women received into British prisons last year, no fewer than 7‘258 had been convicted before. More than 1000 of them had been convicted between 11 and 20 times and 2,880 more than 20 times. Two young schoolboys who placed tin tacks point upwards on the surface of Tennyson Street, Napier were severely admonished when brougrt befort the magistrate, who slated that he did not wish to convict them, but they had undoubtedly
behaved in a very stupid and silly manner, and their action might have had serious con-cqucnces. A Wanganui resident recently received an illustrated circular from Germany dealing with elect neat appliances. His oiniordly was nroused when he noticed an electric sweeper listed at £5. for he had purchased one _ recently for £l710/-, and as far ln‘ could judge from Iho illustration the two articles were identical, lie has come to the conclusion Hint if this class of goods is going begging in Germany it must cost a great deal of money before if reaches the customer in New Zealand.
A motorist while speeding along a county road up Xorlh recently, heard a terrified clucking under the car. He pulled up and glancing back saw two fowls dead on the roadside and another two fleeing for safety. “Thai’ll he four shillings please.” remarked a burly man who appeared on the scene promptly. “That’s only one each for the lour. “Four!” gasped our friend, “but I only killed two." "That's right,'' said the old Backbloeks, “but them other two’ll never lay a blessed egg after this.” “I’m. sorry,” said the motorist as he handed over the cash, “due to fright, i suppose.” The backbloeks poultry raiser shook his head its lie slammed the money into his pocket. “PatlK fright,”' be agiyed slowly, "but main ]y, I reckon, it’s because they ain I liens.”
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2860, 19 March 1925, Page 4
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